Land and agrarian reform has the potential to expand South Africa’s rangeland commons and enhance their contribution
to the livelihoods of the rural poor, yet to a large extent this has been an opportunity missed. ...

A key issue in debates on agrarian reform in South Africa is the potential for small-scale
farming, in conjunction with redistributive land reform, to make a significant contribution to
employment creation and poverty ...

Changing marriage practices and a continuing decline in marriage rates are generating tensions in rural South Africa and prompting innovations in the character of women's rights to land. Empirical evidence of changing ...

Okunlola, Adetola; Ngubane, Mnqobi; Cousins, Ben; du Toit, Andries(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape, 2016)

This report represents one of the outputs of a research and social dialogue project undertaken over 18 months. It explores a number of private sector partnerships and projects launched in support of black farmers – some ...

Over the past few decades, Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa have pursued redistributive land reform as a means to address rural poverty. The Livelihoods after Land Reform (LaLR) study was carried out between 2007 and ...

This introduction sketches the context and dynamics of agrarian change, rural poverty and
land reform since the end of apartheid in 1994, drawing attention to structural continuities
and new elements in the countrysides ...

Agrarian change in South Africa over the past two decades has seen consolidation of the hegemony of large-scale commercial farming and corporate agribusiness within agro-food systems. Constrained domestic demand and growth ...

Marxist agrarian political economy has focused largely on the problematic of accumulation and its politics, but the dynamics of social reproduction in rural contexts remain somewhat undertheorised. These are explored through ...

Kepe, Thembela; Cousins, Ben(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2002)

Sustainable rural development in 21st century South Africa will never be achieved without a radical assault on the structural
underpinnings of poverty and inequality inherited from three centuries of oppression and ...

Cousins, Ben; Genis, Amelia; Clarke, Jeanette(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2018)

Extremely high levels of unemployment contribute to poverty and inequality, and are one of South Africa’s most intractable problems. Can the agricultural sector help to address the problem? And how can land reform be ...